Renewable Chemical Articles & Analysis

On November 10, 2015, Senator Stabenow (D-MI), along with Senators Coons (D-DE) and Franken (D-MN), introduced S. 2271, the Renewable Chemicals Act of 2015 to the Senate. If passed, the bill would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create short-term tax credits for the production of renewable chemicals and for investments in renewable chemical production facilities. Producing eligible ...

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

On September 7, 2016, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) released the report "Advancing the Biobased Economy: Renewable Chemical Biorefinery Commercialization, Progress, and Market Opportunities, 2016 and Beyond." This report documents substantial growth in the renewable chemical industry, and covers domestic policies impacting renewable chemical commercialization. Policy drivers ...

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

The Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference 2017 (ABLC 2017) will be held March 1 - 3, 2017, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. ABLC is the gathering point for top leaders in the Advanced Bioeconomy -- bringing together the entire spectrum of advanced fuels, chemicals, and materials CEOs and senior executives, business developers, R&D leaders, strategic partners, financiers, ...

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association today congratulated waste-to-biofueIs renewable chemicals leader Enerkem Inc. on the announcement of $50 million in financing. As part of this financing, institutional fund Investissement Quebec joined Enerkem's existing investors and became a strategic investor in the company. This partnership will help build and strengthen capacity for domestic renewable ...

By Renewable Industries Canada

Amyris, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMRS), a leading renewable chemicals and fuels company, today announced that Steven R. Mills has been appointed Chief Financial Officer effective May 2, 2012. Mills will replace Jeryl L. Hilleman, whose intent to depart during the course of this year was first announced in August 2011. “Steve’s three decade career at ADM brings ...

By Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc.

The market is heating up! Spurred by a number of high-profile IPO announcements and partnerships, Infocast will unveil the premier edition of Chem-Biobased Global Partnering Summit that will take place from October 24-26, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Houston in Houston, TX. This event will provide the latest market intelligence and insight into the business models of partnering strategies for ...

By Infocast, a Clarion Events, Inc. Company

B&C Consortia Management, L.L.C., an affiliate of Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. and The Acta Group, is pleased to announce the formation of the Biobased Products Advocacy Consortium (B2PAC), an organization that brings together leading innovators in the biobased chemical, biofuel, and renewable energy fields to pursue regulatory and policy advancement. Companies working to produce biobased ...

By Acta Group

Thank you for your continued leadership in moving the Farm Bill. As a final bill is written, we urge you to advocate vigorously for the adoption of the Senate's energy title, particularly the full $900 million in mandatory funding for its ''core" programs. Farm energy programs serve agriculture, rural communities and the entire nation by providing jobs, farm income and environmental benefits. ...

By Agriculture Energy Coalition (AGEC)

Statoil to Provide Direct Funding for R&D Demonstration Phase and Commercial Scale-Up in Norway BERKELEY, CA - 09/15/10 -- Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) and Statoil, one of the world's largest offshore oil and gas producers, today announced a wide-ranging strategic partnership for the production of renewable, sustainable and low cost ethanol derived from macroalgae grown off the coast of ...

By Equinor

Biotechnology Industry Organization: WHAT: Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently introduced the Grow It Here, Make It Here initiative, which will allow more renewable chemical, biobased product and bio-manufacturing companies to existing USDA initiatives. The ...

By Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

Biotechnology Industry Organization: WHAT: Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently introduced the Grow It Here, Make It Here initiative, which will allow more renewable chemical, biobased product and bio-manufacturing companies to existing USDA initiatives. The ...

By Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

Global biofuel and renewable chemical company executives and managers developing strategies to further commercialization will speak in breakout sessions at BIO’s 10th annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology this June in Montreal, Canada. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) announced its breakout program for the 2013 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology featuring ...

By Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today thanked Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and 16 other original cosponsors for introducing the Rural Energy Investment Act of 2012, which would reauthorize Farm Bill Energy Title programs, provide significant mandatory funding, and ensure eligibility for additional biorefineries and products, such as biobased products ...

By Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today welcomed new members Calysta Energy, American Science and Technology Corporation, LanzaTech, The Coca-Cola Company, Lignol Energy Corporation, Neol Biosolutions, and Plum Creek. Additionally, BIO welcomed Scott Vitters, General Manager, PlantBottle™ Packaging Platform, The Coca-Cola Company to its Industrial and Environmental Section ...

By Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

Amyris and TOTAL announced today the formation of Total Amyris BioSolutions B.V., a 50-50 joint venture that now holds exclusive rights and a license under Amyris’s intellectual property to produce and market renewable diesel and jet fuel from Amyris’s renewable farnesene. TOTAL is Amyris’s largest investor, holding approximately 18% of its outstanding common stock, and is ...

By Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc.

Amyris, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMRS), a leading renewable chemicals and fuels company, and Method Products, Inc., the leading innovator in premium, environmentally-conscious household and personal care products, have signed a Joint Development Agreement to generate a portfolio of novel molecules from Biofene, Amyris renewable farnesene made from plant ...

By Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc.

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today thanked Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and members of the Senate Finance Committee for including the Cellulosic Biofuels Producer Tax Credit (PTC), the Accelerated Depreciation Allowance for Cellulosic Biofuel Plant Property, adding algae biofuels in the tax extenders package, and extending ...

By Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

Enerkem Inc. (http://www.enerkem.com), a waste-to-biofuels and chemical company, is pleased to welcome the first employees to the Enerkem Alberta Biofuels facility in Edmonton. This facility is currently under construction and will be one of the first full-scale advanced biofuels facilities in North America. It will use the City of Edmonton's non-recyclable and non-compostable waste to produce ...

By Enerkem

Researchers in Bio4Energy have published a review article designed to guide biorefinery industry looking to make value-added products from side streams of pulp and paper production such as crude tall oil from trees. This is an area that is attracting the attention of several industrial operators in the vanguard of trying to make renewable chemicals with properties similar to chemicals refined ...

By Bio4Energy

Arlington, VA, May 15, 2019—Kathryn Clay, president of the International Liquid Terminals Association, today applauded President Trump for highlighting the importance of infrastructure, and particularly energy infrastructure, to America’s economy: “ILTA applauds President Trump for both highlighting the importance of infrastructure to the U.S. economy and his ...

By International Liquid Terminals Association (ILTA)